Summer is full swing! The smell of freshly cut grass, flowers blooming, and food grilling on the barbecue fills the air. The one thing you cannot smell is your house’s demands on what tasks it needs to be done this month. Get your home ready for July with these monthly tasks!

Check all exterior walls for peeling or cracked paint. If you decide to repaint your house yourself, you can limit the time spent on his project by painting just one or two walls per year. Typically, paint on the south and west-facing walls; they deteriorate faster and requires more frequent re-coating than paint on the north or east-facing walls.

PRICE REDUCTION! 138 Covington Circle is a one-family detached colonial for sale in Huguenot. This home has 4 bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms, with In ground pool, enclosed screen room, and Eat in kitchen with stainless steel appliances!

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Residents surrounding the area of Freshkills can tell you about the typical summer days filled with the sunshine, birds chirping, and the smell of garbage cooking in the heat. Neighborhoods such as New Springville, Heartland Village, and Travis are situated right near what use to be the world’s largest landfill, housing all of New York City’s collected garage. Now, more than 16 years later since the dump has been closed, local politicians are calling on the city to research and determine if those smells were also dangerous.

Councilman Joe Borelli stated at a conference in May that the odor of a landfill is caused by the particulate matter in the air. He continues to say that if you were smelling the landfill when growing up and living on Staten

The Featured Sold Home for this week is a single family attached townhouse. 573 Ilyssa Way is located in the Staten Island neighborhood of Arden Heights. The home was sold by our RealEstateSINY.com team for $235,000!

If you are looking for some change in your home, try a new coat of paint! However, before you get started, read these ten tips by interior designers and painters to help make your paint job the best!

Use the best quality of paint for your budget! Choose to purchase “top of the line” paint, rather than the cheap and bargained brand.

Pick environmentally friendly paints! Besides going to the better brands, also go with the lowest VOC or no VOC paint. VOCs are solvents that get released into the air as the paint is drying. Not only is it better for the environment, but it will also reduce that new paint smell.

Clean before you start! The best prep before beginning is cleaning; always dust and clean baseboards and trim before painting. Use a

The Featured Sold Home for this week is a single family, detached, cape-style house. 128 Tysens Lane is located in the Staten Island neighborhood of Oakwood, through New Dorp Heights. The home was sold by our RealEstateSINY.com team for $471,000!

Come join us this weekend for an Open House at 6 Hunter Ave, Staten Island, NY 10306

Saturday June 17th from 12pm-3pm

Directions: Richmond Road to Hunter Ave

Don't miss the opportunity to see this 3-bedroom, 4-bathroom detached, single family home located on a quiet block in Grant City. Completely renovated, this home features 3.5 all tiled bathrooms, hardwood floors throughout living room and dining room. Kitchen with stainless steel appliances. A must see!! See you there!

For more information on this open house or about this home, please contact Virginia Russell at 917-892-6222

The city has been working effortlessly on plans to improve the waterfront along the North Shore of Staten Island, giving this mostly forgotten borough new life to the active and sleepless city. At the moment, the island is being boosted by the rapidly active construction for the New York Wheel and Empire Outlet Mall, being the world's tallest observation wheel, ranking in at 630-feet tall, and New York City's very first and only outlet mall. Also within the last two years, the North Shore opened new residential developments, such as Urby, with hopes to draw in the crowd that would typically settle in Brooklyn or Manhattan. There is a lot being put into our disconnected borough and turning the North Shore into a desirable destination for both residents

Summer is around the corner! With the end-of-year school dismissal and vacation time rolling around, spend it with your family and friends for some of Staten Island’s free Park events! One of those events being the return of the summer concert series. This free event is all thanks to borough president James Oddo.

This annual summer concert series will feature many performances. The first day of the concert will be June 29th at Fort Wadsworth. The name of the concert series is known as the Sunset Summer series.

It was not just our borough president, but help from the councilmembers Debbi Rose, Steven Matteo, and Joe Borelli who all put this together. There will be all different types of styles of music. All of the concerts will start 7 pm,